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From Publishers Weekly
De la Grange is the world's most eminent Mahler scholar and the present volume, the second installment of a four-volume biography, is the most expansive treatment we are likely to see of the career of the composer-conductor who has really only entered the musical mainstream in the past 25 years. With painstaking detail and a truly incredible depth of scholarship, de la Grange takes the reader through Mahler's first tempestuous years as director of the Vienna Opera-an exacting role in which he not only conducted but hired the singers (a double cast, in case of trouble), supervised the productions, oversaw the scenery and directed-and also quickly took on the double role as the conductor of the Vienna Philharmonic, then Europe's premier orchestra. His all-too-rare vacations, which he guarded desperately, were saved for writing the compositions for which he is now chiefly known-as covered in this volume, some of the greatest orchestral lieder, his Fourth, Fifth and Sixth symphonies, and early performances of his First, Second and Third. Contemporary critics were largely unkind, audiences (except in anti-Semitic Vienna) largely ecstatic. In this volume, Mahler also meets and marries Alma-which de la Grange's wealth of contemporary documentation and letters shows was an ill-starred union, though it provided much solace to both from time to time. No praise can be too high for the care that has gone into de la Grange's work, and obsessive Mahlerians (are there any other kind?) will find a wealth of absorbing material. Illustrations (not seen by PW) plus extensive musical analyses.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Review
`Arnold Schoenberg once claimed that everything about a great man like Gustav Mahler was of interest, even the way he tied his necktie. He would have loved the monumental Mahler biography by Henry-Louis de La Grange ... Mr de La Grange has spent much of his life digging out details about Mahler, right down to the contents of the country huts where he wrote his gigantic symphonies and the recipe for his favourite pudding, apricot dumplings. The result is an indispensable, ... highly readable account of the composer's life and times ... Even readers not stricken with Mahleria will find much to fascinate in the author's sweeping portrait of the crumbling Habsburg empire ... Mr de La Grange is just as good at painting the American background, too ... Mr de La Grange lays out far more evidence than anyone else.' The Economist
`The book is a treasure-trove ... It is for the kaleidoscopically detailed way in which de La Grange asssembles a picture of the world in which Mahler worked, including his critics as well as the people he chose to surround himself with, that this biography deserves to be celebrated. It is in a class of its own. At L30, these 892 pages represent the musical bargain of the decade.' BBC Music Magazine
`La Grange's book is one of the greatest works of biography of modern times ... It is an electrifying read ... to read L Grange's majestic book is to learn to understand the meaning of our mentally-deranged century, and even to hear in the wonderful music what the antidote to all our troubles might be. I have not read anything remotely as gripping in years' Peter Mullen, Yorkshire Evening Press
`highly readable. In its painstaking thoroughness and scope, it is virtually unique in musical biography and, by any standards, a remarkable achievement' Peter McCallum, The Sydney Morning Herald
`Henry-Louis de La Grange's four-volume biography, comparable only to Ernest Newman's life of Wagner, is commensurate in scale with the waxing of Mahler's reputation ... La Grange's vast canvas allows the reader to enter fully into Mahler's world ... The OUP is to be congratulated for embarking on this project' Daniel Johnson, The Times
`La Grange's book is one of the greatest works of biography of modern times ... It is an electrifying read. ... get hold of it, open it, and you will never be the same person again: it is as brilliant as that. ... I have not read anything remotely as gripping in years.' Peter Mullen, The Yorkshire Evening Press
`this version definitively supersedes its predecessors. ... The added material is thus frequently of vital importance and interest ... The book is a treasure-trove. ... It is for the kaleidoscopically detailed way in which de La Grange assembles a picture of the world in which Mahler worked, including his critics as well as the people he chose to surround himself with, that this biography deserves to be celebrated. It is in a class of its own. At L30, these 892 pages represent the musical bargain of the decade.' BBC Music Magazine
`Read of the Week ... chronicled with painstaking precision by La Grange' Scotsman
`Henry-Louis de La Grange's four-volume biography, comparable only to Ernest Newman's life of Wagner, is commensurate in scale with the waxing of Mahler's reputation. ... La Grange's vast canvas allows the reader to enter fully into Mahler's world. ... The OUP is to be congratulated for embarking on this project.' The Times
`Now Mr de La Grange has finally brought out a revised translation of "Vienna: The Years of Challenge (1987-1904)" ... the first of two volumes covering Mahler's 10 years as director of the Vienna Court Opera. it was worth the wait. "Vienna: The Years of Challenge" is not just a biography but also a masterly work of cultural history, a portrait of musical Vienna unprecedented in its richness and comprehension. Though Mr de La Grange has much to say about Mahler's compositions, his book is primarily a chronicle of the life and times of a great orchestral conductor and operatic director.' The Wall Street Journal
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De la Grange is the world's most eminent Mahler scholar and the present volume, the second installment of a four-volume biography, is the most expansive treatment we are likely to see of the career of the composer-conductor who has really only entered the musical mainstream in the past 25 years. With painstaking detail and a truly incredible depth of scholarship, de la Grange takes the reader through Mahler's first tempestuous years as director of the Vienna Opera-an exacting role in which he not only conducted but hired the singers (a double cast, in case of trouble), supervised the productions, oversaw the scenery and directed-and also quickly took on the double role as the conductor of the Vienna Philharmonic, then Europe's premier orchestra. His all-too-rare vacations, which he guarded desperately, were saved for writing the compositions for which he is now chiefly known-as covered in this volume, some of the greatest orchestral lieder, his Fourth, Fifth and Sixth symphonies, and early performances of his First, Second and Third. Contemporary critics were largely unkind, audiences (except in anti-Semitic Vienna) largely ecstatic. In this volume, Mahler also meets and marries Alma-which de la Grange's wealth of contemporary documentation and letters shows was an ill-starred union, though it provided much solace to both from time to time. No praise can be too high for the care that has gone into de la Grange's work, and obsessive Mahlerians (are there any other kind?) will find a wealth of absorbing material. Illustrations (not seen by PW) plus extensive musical analyses.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Review
`Arnold Schoenberg once claimed that everything about a great man like Gustav Mahler was of interest, even the way he tied his necktie. He would have loved the monumental Mahler biography by Henry-Louis de La Grange ... Mr de La Grange has spent much of his life digging out details about Mahler, right down to the contents of the country huts where he wrote his gigantic symphonies and the recipe for his favourite pudding, apricot dumplings. The result is an indispensable, ... highly readable account of the composer's life and times ... Even readers not stricken with Mahleria will find much to fascinate in the author's sweeping portrait of the crumbling Habsburg empire ... Mr de La Grange is just as good at painting the American background, too ... Mr de La Grange lays out far more evidence than anyone else.' The Economist
`The book is a treasure-trove ... It is for the kaleidoscopically detailed way in which de La Grange asssembles a picture of the world in which Mahler worked, including his critics as well as the people he chose to surround himself with, that this biography deserves to be celebrated. It is in a class of its own. At L30, these 892 pages represent the musical bargain of the decade.' BBC Music Magazine
`La Grange's book is one of the greatest works of biography of modern times ... It is an electrifying read ... to read L Grange's majestic book is to learn to understand the meaning of our mentally-deranged century, and even to hear in the wonderful music what the antidote to all our troubles might be. I have not read anything remotely as gripping in years' Peter Mullen, Yorkshire Evening Press
`highly readable. In its painstaking thoroughness and scope, it is virtually unique in musical biography and, by any standards, a remarkable achievement' Peter McCallum, The Sydney Morning Herald
`Henry-Louis de La Grange's four-volume biography, comparable only to Ernest Newman's life of Wagner, is commensurate in scale with the waxing of Mahler's reputation ... La Grange's vast canvas allows the reader to enter fully into Mahler's world ... The OUP is to be congratulated for embarking on this project' Daniel Johnson, The Times
`La Grange's book is one of the greatest works of biography of modern times ... It is an electrifying read. ... get hold of it, open it, and you will never be the same person again: it is as brilliant as that. ... I have not read anything remotely as gripping in years.' Peter Mullen, The Yorkshire Evening Press
`this version definitively supersedes its predecessors. ... The added material is thus frequently of vital importance and interest ... The book is a treasure-trove. ... It is for the kaleidoscopically detailed way in which de La Grange assembles a picture of the world in which Mahler worked, including his critics as well as the people he chose to surround himself with, that this biography deserves to be celebrated. It is in a class of its own. At L30, these 892 pages represent the musical bargain of the decade.' BBC Music Magazine
`Read of the Week ... chronicled with painstaking precision by La Grange' Scotsman
`Henry-Louis de La Grange's four-volume biography, comparable only to Ernest Newman's life of Wagner, is commensurate in scale with the waxing of Mahler's reputation. ... La Grange's vast canvas allows the reader to enter fully into Mahler's world. ... The OUP is to be congratulated for embarking on this project.' The Times
`Now Mr de La Grange has finally brought out a revised translation of "Vienna: The Years of Challenge (1987-1904)" ... the first of two volumes covering Mahler's 10 years as director of the Vienna Court Opera. it was worth the wait. "Vienna: The Years of Challenge" is not just a biography but also a masterly work of cultural history, a portrait of musical Vienna unprecedented in its richness and comprehension. Though Mr de La Grange has much to say about Mahler's compositions, his book is primarily a chronicle of the life and times of a great orchestral conductor and operatic director.' The Wall Street Journal
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